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Picnic with friends II

Picnic with friends II

£675.00Price

This is a vibrant, vertically oriented botanical painting that serves as a beautiful sister piece to 'Picnic with Friends I' . It features the same distinct, heavy paper with highly textured, deckled edges and is rendered in a cohesive, matte folk-art style.

While sharing the same aesthetic DNA, the composition and focal points differ:

Composition & Subject Matter

 

The Main Floral: The lower-right portion is anchored by a large, intricate, multi-layered blossom in warm terracotta and rich orange. Its petals curve inward, revealing a center filled with delicate white and orange stippling.

The "Poppy" Motifs: The painting features two large, stylized, disc-like flowers reminiscent of seed pods or poppies. One sits on the left with a soft, pale cream center rimmed by tiny black dots. The other balances the top right corner, featuring a solid, deep forest green center surrounded by a scalloped cream border.

Foreground & Foliage: A bright, solid yellow orb—resembling a stylized fruit or bud—sits in the bottom left corner. Flowing, organic leaf shapes in shades of sage, olive, and deep green weave through the center and upper left, interspersed with a patch of playful pink-and-white stippled texture.

Background Patterns: The background plays with contrasting zones. A solid, deep sky blue fills the middle sections, while the top right features a bold block of horizontal dark navy and off-white stripes, mirroring the pattern play of the first piece.

Style & Technique

Color Palette: Perfectly matched to the first painting, using a sophisticated, earthy combination of terracotta, ochre yellow, deep greens, cream, navy, and sky blue.

Graphic Details: The piece utilizes clean, rhythmic black and white linework to define the petal curves and leaf shapes. Finely painted dots add texture and a handcrafted, textile-like quality to the botanical elements.

Medium & Presence: The completely matte finish sits beautifully on the thick, organic cotton rag paper, emphasizing the tactile, physical nature of the work.

Emulsion on cotton rag.

73x 33 cm rough uneven surface & edges no

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